Girls in Tech Taiwan 40 under 40 Women in Tech 2017

Here is our second year of Girls In Tech female super stars in technology industry. They are either working in the tech companies, serving a tech function, leading a tech community or in the process of founding great tech companies. They are our role models for empowerment and prospective mentors that will help a lot more women enter into the tech related jobs/industry and grow great careers.

Let’s thank them for their contribution and support to Girls in Tech Taiwan. Happy International Women’s Day to all the women that are changing the world via technology. #IWD2017 #BeBoldForChange

UI/UX Designers

Jenny Shen is an independent UX & UI Designer who creates remarkable digital products for companies all over the world. She has worked with innovative startups to brands like eBuddy, TravelBird, and Megabite Pizza. With a goal to have international experience and understanding of different cultures, she has lived and worked in 5 countries and 3 continents to date. Today, she focuses on designing for online travel companies, to empower travellers like herself to see the world. She also specializes in helping companies expand into new markets, utilizing her expertise in designing for international users. Being a diversity advocate, Jenny founded the Amsterdam chapter of Ladies that UX in 2015, an award-winning global community that aims to push the boundaries and promote women in UX. Her advice for women in tech: listen to your gut feelings, and don’t be afraid to ask for what you want, whether it is a raise or an opportunity. If you don’t ask, the answer is no by default.

Shandy Tsai is an Associate PM/UX Designer at InternetBrands, the founder of NTHU UX Workshop. She’s passionate to design delightful experiences to inspire people. She also wants to share to all the females: “It is important to love yourself first before someone else. It gives you confidence and approval. To be born in the era of technology, we’re lucky to access the knowledge which makes us stronger and powerful. Let’s make a better world :)”

Darla Huang, (English version will be posted soon…)

Eva Chu has 9 years in UX/UI industry and 2.5 years in IT industry. With efficient in User Experience and User Interface. Her also has some knowledge programming skills such as C#, Oracle & PL/SQL. Now she is a core member of Ladies that UX Taipei (LTUX Taipei), and is responsible for organizing and coordinating the monthly event.

Chi-heng Peng currently works at XYZprinting as a UX designer. She started as an industrial designer focusing on designing indoor furniture for everyday usage. A chance to the Nordic widens her vision of a new world of interaction design and HCI. She then later shifted her design focus from the tangible forms to the invisible interaction between products and humans. Her advice to females who are in the field: Share! Talk to people, learn from them and don’t hold back to also share what you know!

Eva Huang is a user experience expert and has years of experience in design management. She has led Tmall, Baidu 91, Ericsson UED team, and help ecommerce and live startups in Taiwan to plan APP strategy. Currently, she is passionate at UX education and training the new generation, and become the product bridge between VC and startups. She wants to encourage everyone in tech industry: “Who you are is what you do.”

Coders

Christine Chen is a Senior Systems Engineer at Thales and a Board Director at The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering, Australia’s premier independent think-tank on engineering and science policy. She is currently working in a team building an open architecture integrated communications and computing system under the $1.3 billion Hawkei program at Thales, where she leads the Specialty Engineering capability and is the engineering liaison for the Remote Weapon Station. Christine has been awarded the Sydney Young Professional Engineer of the Year from Engineers Australia, NSW Young Achiever Award from the Australian Industry & Defence Network, and the Young Alumni Award from the University of Sydney Engineering & IT. She is also devoted to promoting the profession, and previously chaired Young Engineers Australia Sydney and deputy chaired the Australian Society for Defence Engineering (NSW). She wants to share to all the females: “Tech is definitely a rewarding career. It’s challenging, exciting, you’re working on building a better future for humanity, and you get to work with some of the most brilliant minds in the world. Go in with an open mind, learn as much and as fast as you can, and be persistent.“

Tzu-Chun Chen is both a software engineer in Beseye Cloud Security Co., Ltd. and one of the organizers of PyLadies Taiwan. “Coding is the magic in the real world” is one of her mottos. She graduated from National Taiwan University, with bachelor degrees master degrees in Computer Science and Information Engineering. She is out-going, kind and always enthusiastic about computer science. As one in Start-up, she is a full-stack developer who loves to solve problems and keeps trying new things and challenging herself. As one in PyLadies, she likes to communicate with people, meet new friends and help others. Her goal is to make more girls/ladies join in python and enjoy it! PyLadies Taiwan Facebook

Olly Chen is a data science enthusiast with e-commerce and healthcare background. Now she is working at an e-commerce company and dedicating in the field of data mining for years. Cause of open minded to lean new knowledge and likes to share experience with others. In the past 2 years, she gave talks for undergraduate students and R-Ladies Taipei, also joined multiple workshops for keeping updated. As a professional worker, she realizes the value of data mining and machine learning by hands-on marketing prediction and real-time cyber credit card fraud detection. Beside of that, she also loves to concern about environmental and health issues with data when she has free time.Olly wants to encourage all the females: “Straightforward become the person you want to be and never underestimate yourself. You can do it!”

Mosky Liu has love with Python and open source, and is Python Charmer at Pinkoi, works with colleagues to build the best online marketplace for unique gifts. Since writing her first program, she has been using programming language to script virtual worlds from mental blueprints. She also loves sharing what she learned. She is teaching Python, working on Python projects, like Clime and MoSQL, and has spoken at PyCons, COSCUPs, TEDxNTUST in Taiwan, and PyCons in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Korea. Mosky wants to share to everyone: “Do the thing you love with us – the community <3.”

Mars Weng is the Data Engineer of Tripresso, responsible for crawling, cleaning travel data, and planning any possible data application. Solving problems is Mars’s core spirit, that she thinks not only coding but also teaching are good answers for this purpose. Being one of Pyladies hosts, Mars leads Python Beginners and ladies interested in web crawler. Her advices to women in tech: “Break out your comfort zone!” and “Follow your heart!“

Vivian Kaun is a leader in app integration, and performance tuning for e-commerce platforms. With 10+ years of experience in the industry, Vivian has a proven track record of conquering new challenges while making use of up and coming technologies. Outside of software development, Vivian serves the Bay Area community as a language exchange event host for Mandarin speakers and learners. Vivian’s language exchange events allow Taiwanese students in Silicon Valley to connect with others through technology development and cultural discussion and cooperation. Vivian is also striving to increase exposure for Taiwanese students, international academic opportunities, and multi-cultural cooperation through her mentorship with “Women Who Code” hackathons, a global non-profit for women in tech.

Kristen Chan as a data scientist at Wave-In Communication Inc. Her expertise is in e-commerce data mining and telecom data analytics with statistics background. She loves to share experience or knowledge to people who are join in R-Ladies Taipei. And also help kids through the hour of code’s course and love to teach kids programming.

Joy Yang‘s background is biomedical engineer. she is a Software engineer and mainly responsible for research and develop the service about the patent data at InQuartik Inc. She also one of the WOFOSS member. Joy believes: “Don’t be afraid we (girls) are different with other men in technology field, please keep optimism and positive.”

Mia Chang is co-organizer of Azure Taiwan Community. She usually learns from communities and shares her experience to those who stocked on their learning path. She also brings different learning culture and knowledge back, when she goes to travel and visits the local community. From her expertise in Applied Mathematics & Algorithm Research, she worked as a data consultant with different startup projects and helped them to build up analysis system and optimize their marketing/branding strategy. Sometimes she teaches machine learning and data visualization. Share to women in tech: “Explore the world that gives you intuition and inspiration! In this journey, there will be lots of barriers. Believe in yourself, and keep going on. Being grateful to those who help you, also be willing to share when you are able to.”.

Nelly Chang, a business application professional with years’ experience in IT industry. She is a system analyst of big data product at Maxnerva and good at business process analysis and software requirement analysis. She is always curious and want to find something different. She loves to join the community activities to study and share with others, Girls in Tech is the favorite one. She tried to get more opportunity to grow up with others. Her advice to Girls in Tech: “Open your mind. Be willing to try new things. All your experiences will connect in your future.”

Program Management/Project Management/ Product Management

Jolie Huang is a Design Thinker at Accenture with experiences across business, design, and technology. Born with curiosity and thirst for problem-solving, Jolie believes that everything can be changed for the better. She leverages Design Thinking and emerging technology, especially Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things, to help companies unlock business growth, identify new business models, and create innovative products, services, and experiences that people love. Jolie also provides thought leadership in innovation strategy and emerging technology trends that will shape the future of companies and industries. Outside of work, Jolie advises startups and students to develop innovation capabilities. In the early days, Jolie worked across Asia, Europe, and the U.S, and received MBA degree from HEC Paris and Duke University Fuqua School of Business. The quote to females in Technology territory:“Speak up. Never give up, never give in. Develop your strengths and be confident with your choice. Do not let your background or language limit your potential; rather, seek for challenges outside of your comfort zone.”

Ting Wu currently works as a product manager at Verizon Telematics where she led a team and launched the first and second generation of telematics product Car-Net in China. She also won the first place of Verizon Telematics Hackthon in 2016. Before joining Verizon, she worked in diverse industries in Taiwan including finance, marketing and operation which paved the way for her future success in product management. She is passionate about technology innovation and global business strategy, especially in IOT space. In addition, she holds a MBA degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of business and a BA degree from National Central University. Ting believes and wants to share with everyone: a) Be surrounded by A players. Work for someone you respect and admire. b) Be brave, don’t be perfect. Don’t try to fit into the society’s standard criteria. Embrace the imperfection of life and take the calculated risks. c) Working smart is more important than working hard. Be goal oriented.

Joanne Chang is a designer & entrepreneur within the startup tech space. She has been influenced by a multicultural background from Canada and Taiwan. She is passionate about designing novel experiences, from fun workshops to visual designs. Her favorite topics are logo design and infographics. She is currently Cofounder and Head of design for PicCollage. To all the young women who are in the startup community. There is nothing more fulfilling than working on the things you love, no matter if it is building a product or just getting to learn the skills you need to express yourself. The most important thing is making sure that the time you spend is worth it. And if you enjoy the ride, and learn from it, it will be. Live in the moment!

Inky Chang is a product leader at Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures, headquartered in Southern California. Born and raised in Taiwan, Inky is a graduate of National Taiwan University. After earning her MBA from UCLA, Inky joined Amazon.com in Seattle, pioneering new products for the Amazon Prime subscription service, delivering value to millions of customers. At BCG, she leads strategic initiatives and drives new innovations for Fortune 500 clients, helping them to adapt and stay competitive in today’s digital world. She channels her passion for innovation to build disruptive businesses with her clients, leveraging the latest technologies to better serve customers with increasingly diverse needs. Advice for women: “The biggest challenges are often the little ones you encounter everyday. Persevere and always take your rightful seat at the table”

Phini Yang is with the experience incubated 150+ early stage Taiwanese startups while work in AppWorks, the biggest Accelerator in Asia, for three years. Reach out to South East Asia ecosystem and key players network throughout tech media company, e27, to build the bridge between SEA and Taiwan. As CEO of Taiwan Techmakers Association, help local startups tapping into global expansion. Also in order to get more international resource into Taiwan, join Startup Grind 2016 December, largest independent startup community in over 200 cities. She encourages all the women in technology: “Jump in! Connect the dots in your life. You will enjoy yo”

Jade Chang currently works at Microsoft as Audience Evangelism Assistant Manager. She is in charged of Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) program in Taiwan which is an one-year global tech intern program. She initiates “MSP Tech Communities in Campus” plan this year which will incubate MSP as community leaders and encourage young generation to embrace technology. In the meanwhile, she engages over 40 tech communities around Taiwan to provide different kind of supports from Microsoft to help these communities grow.

KIKI Shih works as a business analyst for start-ups and enterprises. She has a BA degree in Japanese Language and Literature from National Taiwan University, and a Master degree in Design from University of Leeds. She had been a planning staff in Japanese electronics company and an industry analyst for Laptops & tablet PC Market in Research Institute. She is good command of Japanese, English, Chinese, and sales Data analysis, Market research and Business analysis with design thinking. Also She is willing to be a bridge between Startups and PC supply chain companies. She wants to share women in technology: “Pay more, get more and enjoy High-tech world with passion.”

Ning Chen is co-organizer and co-founder of Taipei R-Ladies. She is good at web analysis, Industry analysis and community organization. She believes that data can make the world difference and contributes her times on make an environment for women with a range of skills, from “I think I want to learn” to expert will feel comfortable to cooperate with each other. She wants to share to women in tech: “Putting forward a public interest project, and you will get response and resource from others enthusiastic professionals and volunteers,who could make you growth. Simultaneously, all the participants including you can make a difference to our society.”

Weiwei Chiang is VP of Leopard Mobile and The chairwoman of Taiwan Techmaker association. She has about 14-year media(from broadcasting to print) experience in news and management department . She was also the deputy CEO of Republic of China(Taiwan) Centenary foundation. She wants to say to girls: As long as you are willing to try, it’s never too late to enter the tech industry.

Mica Huang is the Director of Product at Cardinal Blue Software, where she leads product development on PicCollage, a top 10 photo app with over 140 million installs globally. She joined the company as an intern while she was still an MBA student at NCTU, and fell in love with working in the technology startup industry. She picked up product knowledge and Lean Startup methods by working with the team, and ended up taking on increasingly more responsibilities on product management, team coordination and company operations. She has a passion for improving user experience and delivering fun and creative products like PicCollage to users around the world.

Amber Yu is a Product Manager at a healthcare startup called HealthExpense. She’s passionate about creating healthcare products for consumers in a complex healthcare landscape, and believes that technology can elevate how health information can be managed for everyone. She is also a board member of Girls in Tech San Francisco, and can be found planning hackathons with her team. Her advice to women in tech: we’re better together. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, challenge the status quo, and help others along the way!

Human Resources

Jessie Chuang now is the Taiwan Talent Acquisition Manager for Corning Incorporated, one of the most innovative companies in the world. Before joining Corning, Jessie served different roles in HR function in Taiwan high-tech industry since 2005. Jessie is highly passionate about being HR professional when she was 7. She believes people are the most valuable asset to the company. Being an excellent HR with warm heart can not only bring out the best from both employees and company, but also lead the company to sustainable growth. Never underestimate the influence power HR can bring into the organization. Jessie likes to encourage people who wants to work for high-tech industry as HR: being HR is not just because you like to engage with people, you also need to understand organization, product and people of this industry, and then you will be able to provide the best solution to solve problems. That’s the true value of HR!

Silvia Yen with over 14 years marketing experiences in leading MNC including American Express, FareEastone Telecom, PCA Life Insurance and Yahoo!, Silvia now is a headhunter with focus on Consumer Goods and Ecommerce industry. Silvia not only provides talent sourcing services, but plays the role as a hub of network for professionals from various backgrounds. Silvia has strong passion on helping talents to explore their potentials and define their vision. She constantly shares her insights about career planning and leads 2 book-reading groups. Her advice to women in tech: It’s all about creating value to the human beings as a whole.

Tech Entrepreneurs

Fiona Lau, co-founder and COO of SHOPLINE, has a strong background in retail and consumer industry in Asia, with past experiences at Disney and Goldman Sachs. Fiona spearheaded SHOPLINE’s first expansion into Taiwan in 2015, from building up the 60-person team, building exclusive partnerships and driving customer acquisition. Currently, over 85,000 e-commerce brands worldwide have chosen SHOPLINE as their e-commerce partner, with more than 2X growth in the past year. SHOPLINE is also supported by strong global investors such as 500 Startups and Alibaba’s HK Entrepreneurs Fund. In 2017, SHOPLINE is targeting another year of high growth to reach 120,000 customers. She also wants to encourage to others: “female entrepreneurs would be “Perseverance”. There will be ups and downs in your journey, just believe in yourself and you will succeed!”

Frances Huang is the founder and CEO of Warmie. During medical school life, she’s developed knowledge of public health, accounting, marketing and entrepreneurship. Frances was inspired by her own family members with gynecological problems. She found a way to track period more efficient from medical references. It motivates her to start a digital health company, Warmie Health. Warmie Health teams up with the experts such as gynecologists, Chinese medicine doctors, fitness coaches to design an app helping women track their period. Frances believes the routine tracking like basal body temperature measuring and 4 phases of menstrual cycle observing would let women obtain better health management, fitness plan and prevent disease. Frances enjoys classical music. She often comes up with ideas when playing the piano or composing songs. Regular fitness three times a week is always on her to-do list. She thinks cultivating diverse hobbies could keep energetic and active. Her life’s ethos:”Dare to dream, follow your heart, and execute your plan” and she wants to share with everyone.

Claire Chang is a person who loves to learn new things, go traveling and understand new possibilities. In 2016, Claire founded her own firm TECHMOI. Based on her professional experience in business development and marketing, she would like to help startup teams in Taiwan to find more possibility in the world. To all the girls: “Go for it, you’ll never know your possibility until you try it.”

Ching-Mei Chen is the co-founder and Head of Product and Partnerships for Cardinal Blue, creators of mobile photo app, PicCollage. She received a PhD in Economics at Cornell University and worked at the U.S. Department of Defense in the Pentagon before moving to Taiwan. She met her co-founders in 2008 when Cardinal Blue was building social apps on the Facebook Platform. In 2011, they launched their first mobile app, PicCollage, which grew to have over 140 million downloads and became a profitable business. She wants to share to everyone: “The first step for others not to set limits on you is to not set limits on yourself. Be gender-blind, be the best you can be as you, not as a woman. Humility is good, but remove the 【不敢當】 mindset. 當 it！Own it! ”

Hannah Chou has diverse experiences in public relations, project management, team building, and entrepreneurship across the areas of consumer electronics, translation services, internet, apps, social enterprise, and startup accelerator. Since she returned to Taiwan from New York in 2012, she’s been a serial entrepreneur. Over the years, she found the most important factor to success (or failure) is “people” and therefore she highly values the integrity of the founders and the people she works with. Through her involvement with Girls in Tech and other female entrepreneurs group, she has seen tremendous entrepreneurial spirit in women of all ages from the food industry, manufacturing, distribution to technologies. She was Cartier Women’s Initiative Award Laureate in 2015 for making social impact in creating innovative job opportunities for persons with disabilities. Now she’s dedicated to fostering female entrepreneurship in both tech and non-tech space while planning her next startup. “Step out your comfort zone. Challenge the world, challenge the others, and challenge yourself.”, from Hannah to all the female entrepreneur.

Jennifer Ping is with over 10 years in digital marketing & analytics,also helped organizations large and small in their path to optimizing digital campaigns and establishing solid analytics foundations and processes for data-driven insights and opportunities. Her career began in digital marketing with SEO and eventually expanded into paid campaign management managing over USD $1 million+ campaigns. Using metrics as the basis for her optimizations, she began to dive more and more into web analytics to identify opportunities for improvement. In 2013, she started her consulting practice Universal Insights Analytics helping multinational brands and Fortune companies maximize value in their marketing efforts and ensure accuracy and integrity of their analytics processes. Advice to everyone: “Don’t let anyone limit or dictate what you can or cannot do. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”

Tiffany Chou, (the English version will be posted soon…)

Tina Lin, Founder of Eros Party (eros.ek21.com). While studied abroad for her MBA degree at the U.S, Tina observed her foreigner friends are good at social interaction, starting a conversation, and showing self-confidence and charm. Compared to foreigner friends, most of Taiwanese are in a small social circle. They don’t know who to go with or what activity to participate after work. Thus, Tina founded Eros Party (eros.ek21.com) and held a variety of theme activities. She wants to make everyone enjoy the activities, meet new friends, and expand friends circle easily.

Sophia Lin has worked across strategy and investing for eight years. She currently founds and leads marketplace startups in both fintech and consumer sectors. A tech enthusiast and an entrepreneur at heart, Sophia is passionate about bringing technology that drives innovation in the underserved segments. Before pursuing her passion in entrepreneurship, Sophia led a US$100 million investment at a boutique investment fund, focusing on agriculture and beverage sectors. She built out the fund’s operations and investment practice from scratch. With limited resources on hand, she helped the firm acquire a strategic partnership with a Fortune 100 company. In her spare time, Sophia also consulted businesses on financial analysis and business strategy. Sophia Lin holds an MBA degree from MIT and a BA from National Taiwan University. She is bilingual in English and Mandarin. Sophia has worked in multiple countries including Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States. She shares to everyone: “Stay humble to learn what you haven’t achieved, but not too humble to share what you have achieved. ”

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